By Hannah Blackwell, M.A., CF-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Have you ever seen a picture of an iceberg? It floats on the water as this giant chunk of ice. There’s no denying that what you see of an iceberg above the water is huge, but below the waterline looms an even larger mountain of...
By Leah Arundel, Clinic Administrator Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Navigating insurance coverage for specialized services can be quite confusing. Here are some helpful tips to help you understand insurance at our private speech therapy office: Know your plan type! Different types of health insurance plans have different coverage options for speech therapy services. Some...
By Anna Dubiak, M.S., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC A voice disorder is when there is an inappropriate discrepancy between vocal quality, loudness, or pitch and a person’s age, gender, cultural background, or geographic location. In short if your voice is not matching your expectation it might be a disorder impacting you. Voice disorders...
By Katelynn Harris, St. Mary’s College Duncan Lake Speech Therapy Graduate Intern Sensory processing is the way in which the body processes internal and external sensory information. When part or parts of the sensory system are not working properly, a child can become dysregulated. This means they are not in a state of optimal arousal...
Written by Tamiko Teshima, M.A, CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC It seems like tongue ties are one of those things that swing back and forth like a pendulum – for a decade or so, they are identified, and then for a decade, the identification fades away. This happens with many disciplines in the...
Written by Leah Arundel, knower of all things insurance Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Insurance is a confusing world. When it comes to primary vs. secondary insurance, though, does it really matter to know the difference between the two? Answer: DEFINITELY! As a healthcare provider, it is inevitable that we will come across patients that...
Written by Aisha Boone, M.A., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC As parents, it can be hard to find ways to engage your child in speech activities at home. As SLPs, we find that the most successful practice can occur during the most basic of everyday activities. Here at the office, bubbles have always been...
Written by Anna Dubiak, M.S, CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Why we should not use the puzzle piece anymore. The neurotypical world at large has come into the unfortunately novel idea that in order to better serve a given population we should listen to the population. An ideology we should have learned long before...
Written by Hannah Blackwell, M.A, CF-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC In speech therapy, especially with little ones, we use music all the time to make things more fun! But did you know, singing actually accesses a different part of the brain than we use for speech and language? When we speak, we rely on...
This week, we are are so lucky to have Shelagh Orlikowski, the DLST Graduate Intern, here to talk with us about stuttering. When SLPs determine that a child has a fluency disorder (our term for stuttering), one of the first questions parents ask us is, “Will this go away?” As Shelagh explains, it is complicated....